Back in 2017, a son who was sexually molested by his mother, Linda Denham-Larholt, a Havant Paedophile, throughout childhood, expressed his feelings when she was not sentenced to prison, stating: “She’s dead to me.”
Andrew Stevens informed The News that his life has been devastated following the exploitation he endured as a young kid at the hands of his mother, Linda Denham-Larholt, who was 67 years old in 2017.
A court heard that he was scarcely a teenager when she compelled him to touch her breasts under the guise of providing comfort in her bed.
Linda Denham-Larholt used him when his deceased stepfather, John, was in Saudi Arabia.
Andrew, now 44, who has waived his anonymity to speak out, told The News: “I want to think of her as being dead.”
“I don’t care what happens to her. I’m not going to give her that any more.”
“I’ve got to let go and just move on and be an orphan; it’s better that way. It has seriously screwed me up.”
“I hate her for what she’s done.”
At the Portsmouth Crown Court trial, prosecutor Rufus Taylor said the pair had an “odd relationship”.
The court heard that when Andrew asked his mother why he had no memory of his childhood and if he should see a counsellor, she said: “They’d probably just say that you were sexually abused.”
Andrew had previously told police in Hampshire about the abuse.
But he was dealt a hammer blow when police said “a jury would never believe a mother would do such a thing to her son,” Andrew said.
The court was informed that police visited her in 1999, when Linda Denham-Larholt refuted the claims but was not subjected to an interrogation.
The Hampshire police have stated that there is no record of this incident, surprise surprise; nonetheless, officers are now informed on how to address allegations.
He returned to the force in 2015, which initiated an investigation.
Subsequently, Sussex Police assumed control.
Yesterday, a judge sentenced Linda Denham-Larholt, of Bartons Road, Havant, to a six-month prison term, suspended for two years, accompanied by a one-month curfew and electronic monitoring.
Recorder Michael Vere-Hodge QC mandated her registration on the sex offenders register for a duration of 10 years following her conviction for child indecency during a trial last month.
The judge said he imposed a sentence “on the basis of an isolated incident of incitement to commit an act of gross indecency”.
Addressing the defendant, he said: “On one occasion, you encouraged, or your son was already in your bed for comforting, and you incited him to feel your breasts.”
He added: “It doesn’t need me to emphasise that this is highly unusual for a mother to commit such an offence on her own son.”
“And, of course, it brings naturally considerable public distaste and condemnation.”
He added the crime was “bad enough” but not of the “worst kind” of indecency.
Linda Denham-Larholt, who denied all the charges, was cleared of indecent assault against her son when he was a child and another charge when he was an adult.
Jordan Franks, mitigating, said she suffers from COPD and asthma, and there was ‘trauma’ in the family.
Probation said Linda Denham-Larholt, who has depression and anxiety, is at low risk of re-offending.
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